Anyone else cooling snakes right now?

snmreptiles · #1 (**permalink**) 12-15-2005, 06:43 AM

I love this time of year...3 months without feeding your adult colubrids takes quite a weight off of your shoulders...We're still feeding somewhere around 60 others but atleast we have a lighter work load for the next 90 days!! This is by far the most snakes we have put into brumation, and this doesn't include "Cooling" our ball pythons which is quite a bit different. Anyone in the CO area need mice or rats? LMAO! Here's a pic of the "Cooling racks". We had a cold front last week like i've never seen, it got down to almost 52 degrees, but has been staying near 58-61.

It seems as if the frogs are breeding like crazy right now, we must have 40 froglets, close to 100 tads, and another 30 eggs!! Good thing this time of year is slow with the other herps!!

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Mike
snmreptiles.com

Ed · #2 (**permalink**) 12-15-2005, 05:20 PM

I just finished cycling the older ball pythons. My younger ball pythons will be cycled sometime in January.
The boas and Corallus are still cycling.

I just put some of my colubrids down, the rest need another year or so of growth first.

Ed

Chondroholic · #3 (**permalink**) 12-15-2005, 08:29 PM

I have a Green Tree Python pairing going on right now. Both were cycled in Sept.. They were together from october- november. The female ovulated on Thanksgiving day and I am now waiting on eggs!! My tentative date right now is Jan. 3 for the eggs.

NCSUdart · #4 (**permalink**) 12-15-2005, 09:25 PM

My copperhead, and intergrade black/yellow rat are fat as can be so i think their good to go for the winter. i've removed their basking lights and it stays nice and cool in their room. I'm still feeding my dusky pygmy though, and i just gave my eastern hognose to a friend to use in his presentations to school kids.